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Don Quixote in Guy Bovet's organ adaptation: a suite in eleven movements full of deliciously quirky ideas. The dry wit of the excerpts from Cervantes' world novel and the opulent, visually powerful music bring the story of the "Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance" to life in the listener's mind's eye, with all its highs and lows. From the pompously celebrated introduction of the main character, the knight Don Quixote, his beloved Dulcinea and the devoted squire Sancho Panza, to the heroic battle with the windmills and the death of the brave knight with the meaningful epitaph: "He lived in madness and died in wisdom". Bizarre and bizarre sounds such as the nocturnal "Battle with the wineskins" or the "Cave of Montesinos" with its eerie procession, delicate grace in the "Love song for Dulcinea", a rumble in the "Wedding of Camecho the Rich", ironic references in Sancho Panza's "Island Stature": With a twinkle in his eye, cathedral organist Andreas Liebig invites you to enjoy an equally profound and humorous listening experience after the "Messe pour les Basloyses" composed by a certain Sieur de Beauvet on the cantus firmus of the Basel Morgenstraich. the concert is part of the KVOB's 5th Basel Organ Festival "Treasure Hunt".

Andreas Liebig (born 1962 in Gütersloh/Westphalia) has been the cathedral organist in Basel since 2014 and, after teaching at the music academies in Lübeck and Oslo, succeeded Prof. Reinhard Jaud as head of the organ class at the Tyrolean State Conservatory in Innsbruck from 2013-15. Studied church music at the Westfälische Landeskirchenmusikschule in Herford. 1983 - 89 Studied organ, piano and music theory at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule with Ludger Lohmann, Adu Frederica Faiss, Heinrich Deppert and Helmut Lachenmann, among others, in Paris with Daniel Roth, in Vienna and Lübeck with Hans and Martin Haselböck, in Freiburg with Zsigmond Szathmáry and with Sergiu Celibidache in Mainz. 1989/90 scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service to study with Hans Haselböck at the Vienna University of Music. 1992 research scholarship from the state of Schleswig-Holstein. 1988 first prizes at the international organ competitions in Dublin and Odense. Lectureships at the conservatories in Lübeck (1989 - 93), Oslo (1995 - 97) and Freiburg (since SS 2018). Cantor and organist at several churches in Denmark, Norway and Switzerland, including from 1996 - 2001 cantor at Sagene kirke, the so-called Nordkant-katedrale, in Oslo with its historic Hollenbach organ from 1891 and director of the Oslo Bach Ensemble. Director of various successful festivals and concert series, including Ostwestfälische Orgeltage, Brahms-Festival Lübeck, International Summer Concerts Ringebu stavkyrkje (Norway), Krummhörner Orgelfrühling (2001 - 2011), from 2002 to 2018 International Summer Concerts Dornum (Holy Organ 1710/11) and 2017/2018 additionally Orgelsommer Marienhafe.

Invitations to festivals such as Festival Suisse de l'Orgue, Copenhagen Summer Festival, Wexford Opera Festival, Odense Bach-Woche, Wiener Festwochen, Schleswig-Holstein-Musik-Festival, Musikalischer Frühling St. Petersburg, Lahti Organ Festival, Oslo Barokkmusikk Festival, Jornadas Internacionales de Órgano Zaragoza, 41º festival internazionale di musica organistica magadino, Festival Internacional de Órgão de Lisboa, IX. Festival Organistico Internazionale Di Bari, Haarlem Summer Concerts St. Bavo kerk, El Sonido vivo (Castilla y Leon), XVI Festival Organistico Internazionale di Treviso, Sommerkoncerter Roskilde Domkirke, Organi antichi Bologna, Nieuwe kerk and Oude kerk Amsterdam, Helsinki Orgel Festival, International Düsseldorf Organ Festival, Modena Organ Festival, Madeira Organ Festival, Festival internazionale musica d'organo Ravenna, XI Academia Internacional de Órgano Granada, International Organ Summer St. Wenzel Naumburg, Organ Art - International Master Organists Dom St. Jakob Innsbruck, 14èmes Rencontres de Musique Ancienne Seurre, Festival d'Orgue - Saint-Rémy en Provence, Festival Internacional de Órgano del Uruguay, Vespri e messe d'organo nella vigilia Duomo de Monza,Festival organistico internazionale città di Trento, Internationaal Orgelfestival Breda, Granada Festival, Grauhofer Orgelsommer, Festival Estoril Lisboa, Non solo scriptura Wrocław, Festival d'Avignon, The International Organ Summer Hallgrimskirkja Reykjavik, Rapallo Musica, Bach-Tage Halle, Orgelfeierstunden Kölner Dom, Orgelspiele Grossmünster Zürich, Orgelsommer Freiburger Münster.

In addition, he has given concerts, radio and television recordings and master classes in Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Korea, Croatia, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, Spain, Hungary, Uruguay and the USA with an extensive repertoire ranging from the Robertsbridge Codex to the avant-garde. Highly acclaimed CD recordings with organ works by J. S. Bach on the historic organs of the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, the Martinikerk in Groningen, the Oelinghausen Monastery and in Dornum. Member of the jury of international organ competitions.

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